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Lord Of The Flies (1990)
(1990) [M]

The second big screen adaptation of William Golding's novel. After a harrowing plane crash into the sea, a group of American military cadets finds itself marooned on a deserted island. Realising the minimal chances of being rescued, the boys band together out of fear and desperation. But as the...  More

War And Peace
(1956) [G]

A decade of preparation and two years of filming went into the making of this all-time classic version of Leo Tolstoy's 20th-century masterpiece. The personal stories of many characters, love affairs and philosophies are woven throughout this massive and intricate tapestry of Russia during...  More

Giant (2 Disc Set)
(1956) [PG]

The legendary epic that's as big as Texas. Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons. It's also one of the...  More

Women In Love
(1969) [M]

D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel about two love affairs is here well-adapted for the big screen. Jackson's galvanizing performance is nearly overshadowed by a lurid nude wrestling scene between Bates and Reed. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director, Best (Adapted) Screenplay. Academy...  More

How Green Was My Valley
(1941) [PG]

Winner of five Academy Awards, this inspiring, yet heart-breaking "Hollywood milestone" (Halliwells's Film Guide) from producer Darryl F. Zanuck and director John Ford is "a perfection of screen art" and "one of the finest" pictures ever made (Variety). Sixty-year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his...  More

The Grapes Of Wrath
(1940) [PG]

This remarkable film version of John Steinbeck's novel was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor (Henry Fonda), Film Editing, Sound and Writing. John Ford won the Best Director Oscar and Jane Darwell won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Ma Joad, the...  More

Orlando (1992)
(1992) [PG]

Sally Potter's dazzling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel is the tale of the apparently immortal Orlando, who begins an epic quest for love and freedom in the court of Elizabeth I as a man, and completes the search 400 years later as a woman. This journey takes Orlando across the...  More

Othello
(1995) [M]

Iago (Kenneth Branagh) convinces Othello, The Moor of Venice (Lawrence Fishburne) that his wife, Desdemona has been unfaithful. Iago is an evil, manipulative character with his own agenda. A plot of jealousy and rage transpires in this classic Shakespearean tale.  More

Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
(1959) [PG]

Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the center of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards on the way.  More

King Rat
(1965) [PG]

George Segal became a star with his performance in this epic WWII drama based on the best-selling novel by James Clavell. The movie chronicles the scams of a streetwise GI held in a Japanese prison camp. Under the harrowing camp conditions, he rises to a position of power over his military and...  More